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Social disharmony, inauthenticity and patriarchy: an Ubuntu perspective on the practice of female genital mutilation

open access: yesDeveloping World Bioethics, EarlyView.
Abstract Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a universal issue which affects girls in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South America, and immigrant communities in Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. FGM is a cultural practice in approximately 29 countries in Africa, affecting over 140 million girls.
Tauseef Ahmad Ally, Lizeka Amanda Tandwa
wiley   +1 more source

Modernity and Moral Theology

open access: yes, 2014
Just as in other fields, whether of science or branches of theology. Moral Theology has developed greatly in the modem times. From being a help in individuals confessions of personal sins from the sixth century it has developed into a comprehensive field of reflection that animates and guides almost all areas of human life today.
openaire   +2 more sources

Lights and Landscapes: More‐Than‐Human Nature in Near‐Death Experiences as Reconciliation in a Time of Ecological Crisis

open access: yesDialog, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores lights and landscapes as depicted in near‐death experiences (NDEs). NDEs are specific experiences, which human beings with a (perceived) close brush with death may have and later recall, often including seeing a brilliant light and sometimes traveling to unearthly dimensions, which may or may not include landscapes.
Tobias Anker Stripp
wiley   +1 more source

Signature of Attention: Historical Ambiguities and Elisions in Contemporary Psychological Framings of Attending

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various “life hacks” are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over “the attention crisis” into a longer signature — the frequently ...
Antti Saari, Bernadette M. Baker
wiley   +1 more source

Christology and the Christian Life

open access: yesJournal of Moral Theology, 2013
Pulling pre-Vatican II moral theology out of its "crisis" is no easy task: a moral theology rooted in dry manuals, a negative, law-based approach focusing on sin rather than virtue, centered on priests in the confessional could no longer be sustained ...
Paul J. Wadell
doaj  

Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
wiley   +1 more source

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